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IDK · Bury The Witness

EXERCISE 20 OF 50
Join Part I to Part N (bars 15-17)
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0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART N
PART I
PART N
CHORUS
PART S
PART V
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLNSVI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play IDK on drums

139 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
65/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-6, silence through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, toms through bars 33-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-40, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-24, 60 and 64, and 11 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-------x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
IDK -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 2, 14, 18, 25, 26, 30 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y (a two-bar phrase), L -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-31 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 13-35 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is IDK?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is IDK hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in IDK?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 2, 14, 18, 25, 26, 30 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED